The minor poems of the Vernon ms. ... (with a few from the Digby mss. 2 and 86) ...

                                
                                  Ȝit preyed he god of More grace:
                                
                                  Þat he mihte knowe be þe face
                                
                                  Whuche resceyued hit worþily,
                                
                                  And wȝuche to haue hit not worþi.
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                                  And [god] [om.]  graunted him his wille,
                                
                                  To knowe þe goode from þe ille.
                                
                                  Þe folk þat to þe prest went
                                
                                  fforte receyue þe sacrament,
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                                  Of somme þe face was also briht
                                
                                  As þe sonne In somer [F. on days]  -liht;
                                
                                  And summe þe [F. here]  visage was also blak
                                
                                  Þat noþing miht hit Blakore mak;
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                                  Of somme hit was [F. And some were]  as red as blod,
                                
                                  Starynge as þei weore wood;
                                
                                  Of somme þe visage was bolled [And sum were swolle þe vyseges]  stoute,
                                
                                  As boþe heore eȝen welleden oute;
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                                  And summe nymped [F. gnapped]  wiþ [F. here]  feet and hondes,
                                
                                  As dogges don þat gnawen heore bondes;
                                
                                  And somme hedde visages of Meselri;
                                
                                  And somme were lyk foul Maumetri.
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                                  Moni wondres weore on hem seene,
                                
                                  Mo þen he couþe þenne deme. [F. se at þat tyme] 
                                
                                  Þe prest, whon he sauh alle þise,
                                
                                  Of þat siht he gan to grise,
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                                  ffor þat siht he [om. in F.]  was hidouse
                                
                                  And dredful and Meruilouse. [F. perylous] 
                                
                                  Ȝit preȝede he god wiþ good entent
                                
                                  Þat he mihte wite what al þis ment.
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                                  And god almihti louede him wel
                                
                                  And wolde schewe him eueridel:
                                
                                  "Þo Men þat weore so briht
                                
                                  As þe sonne on day-liht,
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                                  Þo Men aren ȝit in Charite
                                
                                  And clene of synne, and worschupeþ me.
                                
                                  Þo Men þat were so blake
                                
                                  Þat no þing mihte hem blakore make,
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                                  Þo weore [F. are]  lechours foul wiþ-Inne
                                
                                  And haue no wille to leue heor synne.
                                
                                  Þo Men þat weore so red as blood,
                                
                                  Þei are tirauns [F. Irus &]  wikked of mood,

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Title: The minor poems of the Vernon ms. ... (with a few from the Digby mss. 2 and 86) ...
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Publication: London,: Pub. by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., for the Early English Text Society,; 1892-1901.
Subject terms: English poetry

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